A prehistoric floodplain in Wyoming has revealed a mass grave of giant amphibians, frozen in time for 230 million years.

A team of archaeologists and paleontologists from Argentina, the U.S. and China has unearthed the first known example of a ...

For decades, the coelacanthexisted only in fossil records—until one turned up in a South African fishing net. It was 1938 when a museum curator in East London noticed an unfamiliar fish in a haul from ...

"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ash deposits, which is extremely unusual," study lead author Valentina ...

allegedly spent "hundreds upon hundreds of hours" from his 18-year career collecting the Devonian Age marine invertebrate fossils that were lost, a civil suit filed in Passaic County's Superior ...

2 - Late Devonian (372-359 million years ago ... including most of the large amphibians, leaving dinosaurs with little land competition. 5 - Cretaceous-Paleogene (66 million years ago) when ...

Now he’s suing. Martin Becker, an environmental science professor and paleontologist, has spent his career collecting Devonian Age marine invertebrate fossils, or ancient sea creatures that are about ...

Travelers can get their hands dirty and track down ancient dinosaur fossils, jewels and more treasures through excursions across the country. Families planning a visit to Mantua, New Jersey ...

However, recent paleogenetic studies analyzing DNA from fossils have revealed a major loss of genetic diversity between early Neanderthals (also called “ancient Neanderthals”) and their later ...

Discover where these creatures lived, how large they grew, and when scientists discovered their fossils! The genus name Psittacosaurus translates to “parrot lizard.” This interesting reptile was given ...